I own all PW's cookbooks and have read her novel, The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. When I saw she was publishing a biography, I immediately placed it in my queue from the library.
This book will provide lots of smiles and laughs. Ree shares stories about herself, various family members and country life story in an engaging voice. From the first sentence she draws you in, and before you know it, you are settled in a chair, having read several chapters. I equate this book to Garfield comics. You glance down at an open Garfield book, telling yourself you will read just one . . .five minutes later you have read several pages and have no intention of stopping!
The book is not chronologically organized and the chapters are self-contained. She divides the book into topics: marriage, motherhood, family, country life, new territory. Throughout the book she also includes fun lists, charts and a quiz. She, of course, inserts a couple of recipes.
I would use this book as mentor text for writing personal narratives and essays.
**Highly, highly recommend (for those who like autobiographical pieces, narratives/essays and humor).
Heads up: some swearing; an essay is about a bull's private part freezing to the ground but Nan, her mother-in-law, uses a more vulgar word describe it; I did not like the essay called Cheatin' Movies.)
-Borrowed from the library.
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